how many scouts are the in hong kong, scouts was allways a westen thing to me or have time's changed. is it me or will this flop.
OMG OMG OMG here comes the boy scouts....bah...this sucks, turning kids into spies is not a good thing.
I liked some of the comments on dvorak.org/blog: LOL! So true. Just what we need on the net, overzeloaus teens on the net gathering "evidence" for the RIAA. Woo-tah.
Damn, I was going to make the obvious link to the Nazi Youth too ("Remember son, one day you could become Pope...")
250 Billion a year to piracy, going at the generous rate of the government getting 50% of every CD sale at $15 would mean about 33.3 billion CD's that would have been bought are being pirated every year. Obviously this is spread across movies, games and software too, but I can't help but think that CD sales probably never would be in the region of 15 billion(or whatever billion) a year, even if you removed piracy.
honestly, having a couple of botscouts telling me not d/l stuff is gunna stop me or anybody lol, they will try anything to stop it, the funny thing is though that it is impossible to stop it, you take away the internet, we will just copy from disk to disk, you take away computers, i buy a 1-7 duplicator, bring out new copy protection, we will hack it, they havnt got a chance, why do goverments spend money on things that both we and they know cant be stopped instead of spending it on real crime, no wonder this country is going down the sh*tter
Did they rip this idea straight from 1984? Aside from being outright abusive to youth (nonviolently, mind you), it's just showing how sad the state of humanity is right now.
I cant believe they are doing this. Its the music industries job to try to stop piracy, nobody elses. However, the music industry will never be able to stop piracy unless they realize it is their fault people download music illegally. We shouldn't teach chldren to tell on everyone. Instead we should teach them that the music industry is horrible, and every time you download a song you can imagine that you are kicking some stupid executive in the crotch.
The music and movie industry need to learn that fighting piracy by using brute force and distroying technology is inefficient, rather they should learn to take advantage of it.
I think besides the moral and ethican questions about forming these little kids into an RIAA Youth Party, the idea that children should do the work of adults, is flawed. Children should play and learn, and not much more.
I thought boyscouts had better things to do here, to be honest most of the generic activities you see other boyscouts in other countries don't really exist here like trekking and staying overnight outdoors in tents etc, what a joke online cyberpolice lmao.
But should they learn that piracy is big, and it's clever, and gets you street cred? And scouts aren't "little kids", they're teenagers, the main users and abusers of copyright material.
I thought scouts started off at like 9 and ended at 15 or so? Regardless, I still think it's morally corrupt. The record companies are fighting a battle atm, their lack of morals versus the general publics lack of morals. The kids shouldn't be indoctrinated and brought in one side, they should be allowed to make up their own minds on these things. It seems almost like getting kids to make sure people are saying their prayers or not cursing the Party or something.
It's hardly one-sided, there's plenty of pressure from their peers and older people, at school and online, justifying piracy on the romantic grounds that it's robbing fat cats and doesn't hurt the workers. In their childish innocence they don't look too hard at the capitalistic system, besides they can spend their pocket money on fashion trainers and high-end graphics cards, produced at cost by kindly Nike and nVidia. Piracy can only work if a majority of people buy the product, otherwise the industry folds. Simple business, income must exceed expenditure. If parents and the Churches are no longer teaching moral values, somebody else who the child can respect has to step in. And like with drug abuse or sex, it's no good waiting while a child is over 18 before bringing up the subject, by then he's already been tempted whilst ignorant of any repercussions.
Y'mean piracy can only work for the record industry if the majority of people buy the product. The artists can get along quite nicely with merchandise and tour money. That's where most of 'em make the bulk of their money anyway, CD sales are a pittance in comparison. Frankly though, I'd personally be over the moon to see the current industry fold. Whatever came up afterward couldn't be any worse.
Bah, I've read that three times and I'm still not very sure what it means. I expect you won't explain it though(No-one ever does explain stuff like that)
